Psalms 103:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 103:1

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

KJV

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ASV

Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And all that is within me, blesshis holy name.

WEB

Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.

YLT

By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts--His Holy Name.

DBT

Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name!

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

54 verses on the floor

Psalms 146:1–2
Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
Psalms 100:4
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psalms 57:7–11
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Psalms 111:1
Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

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Voices4

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

If even the prophet, who was inflamed with a more intense and fervent zeal than other men, was not free from this malady, of which his earnestness in stimulating himself is a plain confession, how much more necessary is it for us, who have abundant experience of our own torpor, to apply the same means for our quickening?

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

If we do not give thanks for them, we do forget them; and that is unjust as well as unkind, since in all God's favours there is so much that is memorable. "O my soul! to thy shame be it spoken, thou hast forgotten many of his benefits; but surely thou wilt not forget them all, for thou shouldst not have forgotten any." II.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Blessing God and giving him glory must be the alpha and the omega of all our services. He began with Bless the Lord, O my soul! and, when he had penned and sung this excellent hymn to his honour, he does not say, Now, O my soul! thou hast blessed the Lord, sit down, and rest thee, but, Bless the Lord, O my soul! yet more and more.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Bless, &c.--when God is the object, praise. my soul--myself (Ps 3:3; 25:1), with allusion to the act, as one of intelligence. all . . . within me-- (De 6:5). his holy name-- (Ps 5:11), His complete moral perfections.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Inclusio Psalms 103:22
PERICOPE. 'Bless the LORD, O my soul' opens (v.1) and closes (v.22). Floor-grade verbatim frame.
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